| Abstract: | At first glance, this book is about a narrow and technical aspectof today's development agenda – how to raise finance tohelp achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However,as Tony Addison and George Mavrotas put it in their chapter,‘mobilising finance in the right way can be a tremendousforce for good. The roads that the poor travel down, the marketsthat they access, and the schools that their children attendare all – in one way or another – the products ofdevelopment finance’ (p. 68). Approached in this way,the subject of this book gets to the heart of achieving equitableand sustainable development and, in its 11 chapters, the bookdoes indeed examine |
